I used to believe racism in the United States was overstated.
Sure, it existed. But it's not something widespread. Common. The claim americans are racists is ridiculous.
Well...I was wrong.
"Zohran Mamdani is a terrorist"
"Mamdani supports ISIS and HAMAS"
"New York City faces sharia law"
"Mamdani wants to MURDER jews"
The amount of shit published about this guy is absolutely insane.
He recently attended the 9/11 memorial ceremony.
At some point, he greeted congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and smiled for 5 seconds.
Immediatly, politicians went wild
Senator Ted Cruz:
Congresswoman Mary Miller :
Speaker Mike Johnson:
Here is the video. You can clearly see that he was stoic. He hugged her. Then he immediatly went back to being stoic.
Dude smiled 5 SECONDS in a 5 hour ceremony and they accuse him of celebrating 9/11
At the same ceremony, JD Vance and Howard Lutnick laughed and joked.
No one cares. They are white.
The US is more racist than I ever imagined.
Wait until you visit countries where overt racism is the norm.
overt, but won't spend decades fighting to make laws to stop the people that built the country from voting. strange dichotomy.
Oh? Many have very strict criteria for citizenship including limiting it to genetic decendents. Or licenses to work at all. Which doesnt mean they dont use plenty of illegal labor.
but usa is the most right wing western country(typified by our politics is mostly conservative so to speak), Middle east, ASIA, arnt western by any means they have thier own thing going on, and its a little more complicated, because it tends to be insular for each country, as they speak differently languages have different cultures.
western countries tend to be homogenized.